Join us for a conversation between poet Rita Dove and educator Melissa Alter Smith on the art and craft of poetry and its intersection with today’s world. 

A Q&A session with attendees will follow...

Event starts at 7:30 PM Pacific

Rita Dove is a celebrated poet, prose writer, editor, musician, and former Poet Laureate of the United States—the youngest to have served in the role. Known for...

A Miami Book Fair event

Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove’s first volume of new works in 12 years, is an exploration of the wavering...

Playlist for the Apocalypse is Rita Dove’s first collection of new poems in more than a decade. “Few are this capacious, this capable, this serious, and this pleasurable to read,” writes Craig Morgan...

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Pacific

Portland Book Festival virtual events, presented by Bank of America, will feature variety-show style interviews. Each night, three authors whose work shares thematic...

Take a musical journey through America’s rich past with the “beloved and irreplaceable” (Gramophone Magazine) Grammy Award®–winning mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and the “adventurous and superb” (The New...

Hailed for her “luscious, moody, and dreamy” playing by the New York Times, pianist Lara Downes is equally celebrated as a musical innovator and cultural investigator—as heard most recently and widely...

EVENT DETAILS: Rita Dove will give a brief reading from her new poetry collection Playlist for the Apocalypse, followed by a conversation with Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of The...

Thursday, August 12
7:00 pm Eastern

Rita Dove will read virtually.

There are a few different ticket options for this event.

In-Person Admission Ticket: Includes viewing the event virtually from...

Wednesday, August 11
7:30 pm Eastern — FREE!

Former United States Poet Laureate Rita Dove won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Thomas and Beulah, a semi-fictional collection of verse that examined the...